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Switching Out the Ranch Dressing: Afton Oaks’ New Look

This reinvented Ranch on Staunton St. in Afton Oaks has had a little work done since the last time it was on the market — way back in April of last year, at around $400K cheaper than its current price tag. That American colonial look is gone, wrapped by layers of stucco and Hardie panels and a new standing-seam metal roof. Other nips and tucks for the 60-year-old include a ceiling lift, a new fixed-in-place fenestration program, and a few hundred sq. ft. of additions.

A couple before-and-after comparisons for the 3-bedroom, 2,688-sq.-ft. redo:

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The back yard before:

And after:

The den before:

And after:

The kitchen before:

And after:

You get the idea. The rest of the new digs:

Inside that new garage apartment in back:

Also included: a built-in mosquito retirement system and a closed-circuit security camera for your front door. All just showed up on the market yesterday, for $899,500.

with the pricing of the remodel it will be standing for a while still, but whomever buys it will definitely be looking at the lot size to determine what they can replace it with or certainly what the next buyer can do with the lot.

I actually love the redo. Very cool. The landscaping is still more appropriae for the previous style. And I agree that replacing doors with non-opening windows is a bad choice. The interior Home Depot doors also don’t match the style, should have gone for minimalist slabs. Nonetheless, I wouldn’t have given it a second look before and now I actully love it

Hopefully, the exterior will age well. All of the landscaping looks like it’s relatively new in the pictures. The whole house has this unsettling “fresh out of the box” look.
I’d like to know what the neighbors think/thought.
I’d spend all my time in the garage apartment. Man cave-a-rama time.
For some reason, I don’t groove on marble flooring. If I was dog, I’d love it. For some reason, I reflexively think I’m in a bathroom when I’m surrounded by that much marble. At my age, that’s not a bonus.

Boring, blah, bland, sterile, OVER-PRICED as hell, I can’t imagine how boring the people are that live in such a boring, personality-devoid home. I mean it’s not 1988 people! It’s horrible, WAY Better before in every way. What a sick/sad waste of good money.

What a disaster! Took a charming (yes small) house with character – great brick, beautiful treas, hardwood floors – and turned it into a U-Totem. Looks like they had to remove some of those great treas to expand? And the price?? For 100K more you can get SO much more and much less sterile. And what is up with the 2 story garage? Tavesty……………..

From Anika:
Boring, blah, bland, sterile, OVER-PRICED as hell, I can’t imagine how boring the people are that live in such a boring, personality-devoid home. I mean it’s not 1988 people! It’s horrible, WAY Better before in every way. What a sick/sad waste of good money.

There you go girl!! Git yo hate on!! HATE HATE HATE….YES IT FEELS SO GOOD TO HATE!!!